What're some good ways of notifying a perl script of an incoming email?

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Re: What're some good ways of notifying a perl script of an incoming email?⭐ by tye (Sage) on May 09, 2002 at 16:56 UTC
The typical solution is to put `\| myPerlScript` in your .forward file. However, this feature is often disabled because of its power and ease of abuse.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: What're some good ways of notifying a perl script of an incoming email?⭐ by vagnerr (Prior) on May 09, 2002 at 15:39 UTC
If you are Unix based, I would definatly recomend that you look at procmail. (man "procmail" or "procmailrc")	[reply]
Re: What're some good ways of notifying a perl script of an incoming email?⭐ by superfrink (Curate) on Dec 29, 2004 at 08:43 UTC
tye pointed out the .forward file. I don't believe qmail uses that file. Instead the `~/.qmail` file gets used. See the dot-qmail man page for details about the `.qmail` file. Read the man page because your program's exit codes are important to qmail. My /home/frink/.qmail file looks like this: `\| /home/frink/scripts/email-spam-keywords.pl ./Mailbox` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: What're some good ways of notifying a perl script of an incoming email? by solszew (Initiate) on Nov 23, 2002 at 00:42 UTC
If you use sendmail, you can build a perl milter - look at the source code for "mimedefang", or visit www.milter.org for details regarding milters in general.	[reply]